Out to lunch, part 1

I have always liked ‘out to lunch’ shop signs, I am not quite sure why that is. Perhaps it’s the ordinariness of the typography, but also because these three words seems to convey a world of possibilities; a condensed hour or so where one could be doing any number of things. Now I have finally designed one myself, hopefully the first of many. The rather upbeat exclamation mark was inspired by the excellent album cover of Eric Dolphy’s singular ‘Out to Lunch!’ (Blue Note, 1964).